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Disquisition by Scripps, E.W., The momentum theory of inheritance, June 26, 1908

Ohio University Libraries, E. W. Scripps Papers, MSS 117, Series 4, http:// media. library. ohiou. edu/ scripps
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~ fIBsf, or Ritter is wri ting, or trying to write, a book. He has never
a book before . \\ hile he knows the. jargon of the class room . and
. ' 0,1< 0. · fic treatises, he has but little experience with the vernacular
vulgar literature, or literature for the vulgar.
So he undertook to read parts of his book to me to see if I
understand it: trying it on dog, as it were.
I did not understand him very well . It is true that I know the
... Illlng of most of the words that he used, and I could see pl ainly
that he was building up regularly formed sentences .
I have a great deal of t rouble in getting at and grasping the full
.. ". I~ of most of these writers on scientific subjects. It seems to
I can often get the real idea that the author intends to convey
sort of process entirely distimt from that usually depended
by myself and others in gathering information from the printed page .
There have been writers like Lo. dge and Ramsay, and like Professor
, who seemed to have had the ability to state any scientific fact
simple words but with such a grouping of the same as to
travelling. over their thought paths easy and delightful.
· But to get back to Ritter and his book. I could not well understand
~ arl@ lllge, but I did get at the idea that he , was trying to
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